Installing Discoverer 10.1.2.3 Client Software on Vista (32 & 64-bit)
Although not Federal specific, I thought I’d post the steps I came up with a ways back to install the latest Discoverer client tools (Desktop and Administrator) on Vista as there’s a bit more to the approach than a couple clicks. I know of a number of users who fought with the process for a few days, so just follow this if you need to install and you should be good to go. A co-worker recently confirmed this approach also works for Vista 64-bit. Here is the doc I put together.
-Update 1June09: I did successfully install on Vista 64-bit using the doc. I added two items to the doc: 1) Be sure to always execute the install processes as Adminstrator (right click on the setup.exe and select ‘Run as Adminstrator), and 2) I suggest using a short path name for where you unzip the files (e.g. c:\oraclesoftware\BI Tools 10g), as the installer seems to fail when executing from a directory with a long path name.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Oracle BI Apps 7.9.6 Released: Includes Oracle Federal Financials Analytics
We’ve been hearing about the canned Federal Financials OBIEE analytics capability for some time, and now it has been released. From an initial look, it looks like this initial Federal-specific batch of canned offerings includes 2 Dashboards, one focused on various Federal Balance Sheet metrics and the other focused on Federal Budget & Spending. Of course there are plenty of dashboards, metrics and reports in the standard Financial Analytics offering that are useful in Federal Financial management as well. At a first glance, it looks like these new Federal pieces are just using an 11i10 adapter and not R12, so we’ll have to look further into that.
A good initial summary of this latest release is available in this Oracle BI Blog Post. A bit more detail can be extracted from the BI Apps 7.9.6 Licensing and Packaging Guide here. Note, a bunch of the documentation links for this new release aren’t working yet, but I’m sure they’ll get that straightened out before too long.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New NoetixViews for Federal Financials, Web Seminar 3/24
Noetix just announced a package of 35 views for Federal Financials and will be hosting a web seminar on 3/24 to introduce them. Click here for the link to the Noetix page discussing the offering and here to view details on the Web Seminar and sign up.
For those not familiar with Noetix views, they have historically been used as a supplement to Discoverer. The views are marketed as a mechanism to access E-Business Suite data easier through simpler data element naming and other functionality. Any BI tool could use the views into the E-Business Suite data though, it doesn’t have to be Discoverer. Personally, I don’t have any intimate experience using Noetix views, but I have heard positive reports in the past. Oracle doesn’t provide any Federal-specific views as part of the Discoverer Apps views (Discoverer users utilize a standard Federal Administrator Business Area that simply mirrors the FV schema and users can leverage the standard Apps views for other modules, but no specific Federal views), so this can fill a bit of void there.
We’re probably all aware of the strong push from Oracle to move toward the OBIEE architecture for BI and with new Federal OBIEE content soon to be released, there’s some competition here. Although, these two architectures are definitely different.
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Oracle Federal Applications 